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Palaver sauce or Palava sauce is a type of stew widely eaten in West Africa including Ghana Liberia Sierra Leone and Nigeria. The word palaver comes from the Portuguese language and means a talk lengthy debate or quarrel. It is unclear how this led to the name of the stew. One theory is that when the stew was first made with long ropey greens people would start quarrels by slapping each other with the greens from their stew.